The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1887-10-18

aster, and we are presented with their features
and their biography. But where one such
famous firm sinks. five hundred unknown men
sink with them. The great steamer goes down
and all the little boats are swallowed in the
same engulfment. Gambling is gambling,
whether in stocks or breadstuffS, or dice or
race track betting. Exhilaration at the start,
and raving brain and shattered nervous
system, and q sacrificed property, and
destroyed soul at the last. Young man, buy no
lottery tickets, purchase no prize packages, bet
on no baseball games or yacht racing. have no
faith in luck, answer no mysterious circulars
proposing great income for small investments
shoo away the buzzards that hover aroung our
hotels trying to entrap strangers. Go out and
mrke an honest living. Have God on your
side and be candidate for heaven. Remem-
Der all the paths of sin are banked with flow
ers at the start, and there are plenty of helpful
hands to fetch the gay charger to your door
aud hold the stirrup while you mount But
further on the horse plunges to the bit in a
S slough inextrieable. The best honey is not
like that which Jonathan took on the end of
the rod and brought to his lips, but that which
God puts on the banqueting table of
Mercy, at which we are all invited
to sit. l was reading of boy among the
mountains of Switzerland ascending danger
Gus place with his father and the guides. The
boy stopped on the edge of the cliff and said:
There is flower I mean to get.''' Come
away from there" said the father ''you will
fall off. :" "No," said he, 81 must get that
beautiful flower" and the guides rushed to-
ward HIM to pull him back, when they heard
him say: II almost have it, as he
fell two two thousand feet Birds of prey
were seen a few days after circling
through the air and lowering gradually to the
place where the corpse lay. Why seek flowers
OIL the edge OF precipice when you may walk
knee deep amid the full blooms of the very
Paradise of God? When mai may sit at a
kings banquet, why will he go down the steps
and contend for the gristle and bones of q
hounds kennel? "Sweeter than honey and
the honeycomb," says David, sis the truth of
God" with honey out of the rock would
have satisfied thee" says God to the recreant.
Here is honey gathered from the blossoms of
trees of life, and with a rod made out Of the
wood of the cross dip it up for all your souls.
The poet Hesoid tells of an ambrosia and
nectar the drinking of which would make men
live forever, and one sip of this honey from
the Eternal Rock will give you immortal life
with God. Come off Of the maarial levels of
sinful life Come and live on the uplands of
grace whore the vineyards sun themselves.
Oh, taste and see that the Lord is gracious.
lie happy now and happy forever, For those
who take different course the honey will
turn to gall. For many things [ have adj
mired Percy Shelley, the great English poet,
but deplore the fact that it was great
sweetness to him to diShonor God. The poem
Queen Nab has in it the maligning Of the
Deity. The infdel poet was impious enough
to ask for Rowland Hills Surrey Chapel that
he might denounce the Christian religion. He Il
was in great glee against God and the truth Y
But he visited Italy, and one day on the Med
itemanean with two friends in boat
which was twenty-four feet long he was
coming toward shore when an hours squal1
struck the water. a gentleman standing on
shore through glass, saw many boats tossed
in this squall, but all outrode the terror ex-
cept one, that in which Shelley, the infide1
poet, and his two friends were sailing. That
never came ashore, but the bodies Of two of
the occupants were washed upon the
beach, one OF them the poet A funeral pyre
was built on the seashore by some classic
friends and the two bodies were consumed.
Poor Shelley he would have no God while he
lived, and he probably had no God when he
died. Tins Lord knoweth the way of the
righteous, but the way of the ungodly shall
perish"